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  • Symbian Shift 77.3m Units In 2007

    Symbian Shift 77.3m Units In 2007Apple may be busy shuffling facts about to make their modest iPhone sales sound more impressive, and Microsoft may be bragging about the 14.3m Windows Mobile phones sold in the last 6 months, but when it comes to sheer volume of sales, they’re right at the back of the class compared to Symbian OS.
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  • Nokia High End N96 Announced

    Nokia High End N96 AnnouncedFeaturing more bells and whistles than a loved up gang of NuRave Morris dancers, Nokia have unveiled their new Nokia N96 high end handset at the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona.

    Billed as being optimised for video and TV, the N96 sports a beefy 2.8″ 16m colour TFT, QVGA (240×320 pixel) resolution screen, 16GB of internal memory and support for high-quality videos in a wide range of formats, including MPEG-4, Windows Media Video and Flash Video.
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  • Microsoft Buys Danger, Sidekick Makers

    Microsoft Buys Danger, Sidekick MakersMicrosoft’s wad may have failed to woo Yahoo yesterday, but they’ve had more luck flashing the cash at the software firm Danger Inc, makers of the software that powers T-Mobile’s hugely successful SideKick web phone.
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  • Samsung G810 S60 Smartphone Packs Wi-Fi, GPS

    Samsung G810 S60 Smartphone Packs Wi-Fi, GPSSamsung G810 have announced details of their top of the range Samsung G810 slider phone.

    Packed with kitchen sink-including functionality including geo-tagging and Wi-Fi, the handset looks ready and willing to square up against the hugely popular Nokia N95 smartphone.
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  • Nokia Adds N78, 6210 Navigator And 6220 Classic Phones

    Nokia Adds N78, 6210 Navigator And 6220 Classic PhonesNokia, the undisputed heavyweight mobile phone-shifters of the world have announced three more multimedia phone models at the mobile industry’s annual knees-up in Barcelona, the Mobile World Congress 2008. (more…)

  • Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Phone Packs ‘Panel Interface’

    Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Phone Packs 'Panel Interface'Wooargh! This one looks good! Sony Ericsson have just released details of their new XPERIA X1 ‘arc slider’ 3G HSDPA phone that comes with an intriguing new ‘panel interface’ running on top of Windows Mobile. (more…)

  • Fring Adds Mobile File Transfer To VoIP/IM

    Fring, a provider of VoIP on mobiles, has added new functionality in their latest release.

    Beyond the VoIP and IM functions already included, they’ve expanded to allow the interchange of files between subscribers – mobile to mobile, PC to mobile, as well as between mobiles and PCs, if it runs an MSN IM or Skype client.

    There’s no restriction on the type of files that can be sent, or indeed file size, as long as you’ve got storage to receive it. Suggestions are photos – an obvious use, and a considerable saving of use MMS; as well music files – which we suspect will raise the hackles of the music biz; videos and documents complete the list.
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  • Mobiles Do/Don’t/Do/Don’t Cause Cancer Risk

    Mobiles Do/Don't/Do/Don't Cause Cancer RiskIf anything’s likely to cause long term health issues, it would be worrying over the endless contradictory mobile phone health reports.

    In the latest of a long line of reports, a Japanese study concludes that mobile phone use does not raise the risk of brain tumours, so we can relax for a bit (until the next damning report comes out, natch).
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  • Brits Send SMS Traffic Soaring

    Brits Send SMS Traffic SoaringUs Brits are still staying glued to the keypads of our mobiles, with new research showing that an astonishing total of 57 billion messages were sent last year.

    Despite more phones being capable of receiving and sending email, the figures from the Mobile Data Association show SMS volumes continuing to soar, with volumes up 40% year on year.
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  • 32Gb iPod touch & 16Gb iPhone Added

    32Gb iPod touch & 16Gb iPhone Added Apple have today added two new models with increased storage to both the iPhone and iPod touch ranges.

    For those of you who didn’t think the iPhone was quite expensive enough, the 16GB model will cost an extra £60 than the existing 8GB, pushing it up to £329 (inc VAT). The 8Gb will remain at £269 inc.

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